Franchot Tone
Born: 1905-02-27 in Niagara Falls, New York, USA
Died: 1968-09-18
Known For: Acting
Biography
Franchot Tone (February 27, 1905 – September 18, 1968) was an American stage, film, and television actor, star of Mutiny on the Bounty (1935) and many other films through the 1960s. In the early 1960s Tone appeared in character roles on TV dramas like Bonanza, Wagon Train, The Twilight Zone, and The Alfred Hitchcock Hour. Description above from the Wikipedia article Franchot Tone, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
Filmography
1996
- Joan Crawford: Always the Star as Self (archive footage)
1991
- Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker as actor 'Advise and 'Consent' (archive footage) (uncredited)
1989
1976
- That's Entertainment, Part II as (archive footage)
1972
- Hollywood: The Dream Factory as Self (archive footage)
1970
- Brasileiros em Hollywood as Self (archive footage)
1968
- Nobody Runs Forever as Ambassador Townsend
- Shadow Over Elveron as Barney Conners
1965
- Run for Your Life as Judge Taliaferro Wilson
- In Harm's Way as CINCPAC I
- Mickey One as Rudy Lopp
- The Making of A Movie as Self
1964
- The Big Parade of Comedy as Gifford in 'Bombshell' (archive footage)
- How to Make a French Dish as John K. Montasy Jr
- See How They Run as Baron Frood
1962
- The Alfred Hitchcock Hour as Rudolph Bitzner
- The Virginian as Murdoch
- Advise & Consent as The President
1961
- Ben Casey as Daniel Freeland
- Witchcraft: The Doll in Brambles as Your Host
1960
- The Shape of the River as Mark Twain
1959
- Bonanza as Denver McKee
- The Twilight Zone as Col. Archie Taylor
1958
- Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse as Candy Lombe
- Bitter Heritage as Frank James
1957
- Uncle Vanya as Dr. Mikhail Lvovich Astroff
1956
- Armchair Theatre as Joe
- Rendezvous in Black as Hugh Strickland
- The Little Foxes as Horace
1955
- Alfred Hitchcock Presents as Oliver Mathews
- Too Old for Dolls as Mike Ramsay
1954
- Climax! as Henry Hutton
- Twelve Angry Men as Juror #3
1953
- General Electric Theater as Charles Proteus Steinmetz
1952
- Four Star Playhouse as Ben
1951
- Tales of Tomorrow
- Here Comes the Groom as Wilbur Stanley
1950
- Robert Montgomery Presents
- The Colgate Comedy Hour as Self
- Lux Video Theatre as Meredith Whitehouse
1949
- Lights Out
- Suspense as Markheim
- Without Honor as Dennis Williams
- Jigsaw as Howard Malloy
- The Man on the Eiffel Tower as Johann Radek
1948
- The Philco Television Playhouse
- The Ed Sullivan Show as Self
- Studio One as Juror #3
- I Love Trouble as Stuart Bailey
- Every Girl Should Be Married as Roger Sanford
1947
- Her Husband's Affairs as William Weldon
- Honeymoon as David Flanner
- Lost Honeymoon as Johnny Gray
1946
- Because of Him as Paul Taylor
1945
- That Night with You as Paul Renaud
1944
- Phantom Lady as John 'Jack' Marlow
- Dark Waters as Dr. George Grover
- The Hour Before the Dawn as Jim Hetherton
1943
- Five Graves to Cairo as Cpl. John J. Bramble / Paul Davos
- True to Life as Fletcher Marvin
- His Butler's Sister as Charles Gerard
- Pilot #5 as George Braynor Collins
- The Voice That Thrilled the World as Self (segment 'Dangerous') (archive footage)
1942
- The Wife Takes a Flyer as Christopher Reynolds
- Star Spangled Rhythm as John
1941
- Nice Girl? as Richard Calvert
- She Knew All the Answers as Mark Willows
- This Woman Is Mine as Robert Stevens
1940
- Trail of the Vigilantes as Kansas
1939
- Fast and Furious as Joel Sloane
1938
- Three Comrades as Otto Koster
- The Girl Downstairs as Paul Wagner
- Three Loves Has Nancy as Robert 'Bob' Hanson
- Man-Proof as Jimmy Kilmartin
- Love Is a Headache as Peter Lawrence
- Screen Snapshots Series 17, No. 6 as Self
1937
- Quality Street as Dr. Valentine Brown
- They Gave Him a Gun as James 'Jimmy' Davis
- The Bride Wore Red as Giulio
- The Romance of Celluloid as Self (archive footage)
- Between Two Women as Allan Meighan
1936
- Exclusive Story as Dick Parton
- The Gorgeous Hussy as John H. Eaton
- Suzy as Terry
- The King Steps Out as Emperor Franz Josef
- The Unguarded Hour as Sir Alan Dearden
- Love on the Run as Barnabus Pells
1935
- Mutiny on the Bounty as Roger Byam
- The Lives of a Bengal Lancer as Forsythe
- Reckless as Robert 'Bob' Harrison Jr.
- Dangerous as Don Bellows
- No More Ladies as Jim 'Jimsy Boysie' Salston
- One New York Night as Foxhall Ridgeway
1934
- Sadie McKee as Michael
- Gentlemen Are Born as Bob Bailey
- Moulin Rouge as Douglas Hall
- The Girl from Missouri as T.R. Paige, Jr.
- The World Moves On as Richard Girard - 1825 / Richard Girard - 1914
- Straight Is the Way as Benny
1933
- Dancing Lady as Tod Newton
- Bombshell as Gifford Middleton
- Gabriel Over the White House as Hartley Beekman - Secretary to the President
- Midnight Mary as Tom
- Today We Live as Ronnie Boyce-Smith
- The Stranger's Return as Guy Crane
- Stage Mother as Warren Foster
1932
- The Wiser Sex as Phil Long